Nikos Raptis "Client state: a country that is economically, politically, or militarily dependent on another country" (Webster’s 10th). That was a rather…
Nikos Raptis Can a rather routine visit of a US President to a small country be so important to deserve an "anatomy"?…
Nikos Raptis Pnyx is the name of a low (357 feet high) hill about 450 yards to the west of the Acropolis…
Nikos Raptis The U.S. (corporate or state) institutions that dominate the life of ordinary people in almost all countries, though impersonal, need…
Nikos Raptis The Building The German word "Reichstag" means parliament. In colloquial German it also means the parliament building. It is not…
Nikos Raptis Life Complexities This has been in the news in Greece all day long yesterday and today (August 17, 1999):…
Nikos Raptis After WWI at the Versailles peace conference, in 1919, an irregular line of nations, north to south from Finland to…
Last year (1998) George Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at the University of Athens, compiled "The Dictionary of the Modern Greek Language." The…
In a March 1985 talk at Harvard, Noam Chomsky once more mentioned the "Grand Area" planning of the US foreign policy developed…
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (rhymes with Engel’); was borne in 1887 in Munich, the Bavarian town, birthplace of Nazism, and known, also,…
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